Discharge Planning merupakan rangkaian proses perawatan yang dimulai dari pasien masuk ke rumah sakit sampai pulang bertujuan untuk penyembuhan dan meningkatkan derajat kesehatan pasien. Pelaksanaan discharge planning sangat diprioritaskan stroke, karena stroke biasanya terjadi dalam jangka waktu panjang berulang. Kesiapan bergantung pada kesiapan keluarga setelah rumah. Penelitian ini mengetah...

BACKGROUND home visits and telephone calls are two often used approaches in transitional care but their differential effects are unknown. OBJECTIVE to examine the overall effects of a transitional care programme for discharged medical patients and the differential effects of telephone calls only. DESIGN randomised controlled trial. SETTING a regional hospital in Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS ...

Abstract Recurrent hospitalizations are responsible for considerable health care spending, although prior studies have shown that a substantial proportion of readmissions are preventable through effective discharge planning and patient follow-up after the initial hospital visit. This retrospective cohort study was undertaken to determine whether telephonic outreach to ensure patient understandi...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a transitional care program for patients discharged from military hospitals. The study consists of two phases: developing the program and evaluating its effectiveness. METHODS The conceptual framework used to guide the development of the program was Meleis's transition theory. A quasi-experimental design was employed for this study...

BACKGROUND Single-site studies have demonstrated inadequate quality of discharge summaries in timeliness, transmission, and content, potentially contributing to adverse outcomes. However, degree of hospital-level variation in discharge summary quality for patients hospitalized with heart failure (HF) is uncertain. METHODS AND RESULTS We analyzed discharge summaries of patients enrolled in the...

This article provides an overview of a project undertaken by the Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI) and funded by The Department of Health, to identify the barriers and challenges that prevent effective discharge from hospital to home. Unnecessary delays in discharging patients from hospital to home is an ongoing problem and for older people this can lead to worse health outcomes, which can increa...

OBJECTIVE To investigate factors that predict discharge destination for patients making the transition from hospital to the community. METHODS Using a prospective cohort design, 696 patients from 11 Transition Care Programs were recruited. Baseline patient and program characteristics were considered for predicting discharge destination, functional status, and patient length of stay. RESULTS...